Ashutosh Saxena
Microsoft Fellow | Sloan Fellow | MIT TR35
Dr. Saxena received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence with Andrew Ng from Stanford University. He went on to become an accomplished professor at Cornell University. He co-founded Katapult (NSDQ: KPLT), Brain of Things ($8 million ARR), and Caspar AI (Top 100 AI Companies).
Dr. Saxena's expertise is in building Physical AI for Autonomous Systems like robots, cars and homes.
Dr. Saxena has published about a hundred papers in top venues like NeurIPS, ICML & CVPR, with numerous best paper awards and 20,000+ citations. His work on Large-scale models for robotics was awarded the 10-year test of time award in 2023. His work focuses on keeping AI models interpretable & operate within guard-rails.
Awards
- Test of Time 10-year award, Robotics Science & Systems, 2023 for Large-scale AI for Robots
- Microsoft Faculty Fellow
- Sloan Fellow
- MIT TR35 award
- Google Faculty Research Award
- Top 100 AI Companies by CB Insights for Caspar.AI
- San Francisco Business Times 40 Under 40, 2020.
- Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies, SF Business Times, Brain of Things - Homes as Robots.
- Eight Innovators to Watch, Smithsonian Institution.
- World Technology Award
- MIT Technology Review, 10 Breakthrough Technologies - Wikipedia for Robots
- The 50-years of Shakey at AAAI-RSS Blue Sky Ideas award
- RSS Early Career Award, 2014. (Talk)
- NSF Career award, 2013.
- Best Cognitive Robotics paper, IROS'14. Best student paper, CVPR'16 and RSS'13.
- CUAir at AUVSI'12: First prize, mission performance.
Caspar.AI
Caspar's AI uses 3D radar sensors to track patient's heart-rate & activities to identify 20+ health & wellness markers
CB Insights AI Top 100 Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Companies
Katapult (NSDQ:KPLT), Co-founder
With Katapult's AI technology, retailers know which shoppers will pay
Cornell startup helps the 'unbanked' buy online. Cornell Chronicle '15.
RoboBrain: Physical AI
Cross-attention deep learning to embed visual, 3D, and trajectory plans into one single model. One of 10 innovative technologies by MIT Tech Review - "Wikipedia for Robots"
The Plan to Build a Massive Online Brain for All the World’s Robots, Wired '14.
Brainy, Yes, but Far From Handy. John Markoff, New York Times '14.
Robot Learning
AI for Robotics Perception & planning: RoboBarista, TellMeDave, et al. The 50-years of Shakey at AAAI-RSS Blue Sky Ideas award.
Robot bartender can read your mind, Fox News'13. Also the Daily Show.
Cats, Robot Baristas, Tricorders, and the Future of Deep Learning. Huffington Post '15.
Holopad: TinTin, Chief Scientist
Steven Spielberg's movie Tintin experience reimagines how we engage and interact in 3D with what was once a static printed book.
TinTin iPad Art Book Blurs The Line Between Books, Movies, And Apps. Techcrunch.
Brain4Cars
AI for anticipating driver's actions before they happen, using cameras.
New Technology May Prevent Accidents By Reading Drivers' Body Language, Forbes '15.
Brain4Cars: Car Predicts Driving Mistakes Before They Happen. CNN'15.
Autonomous Drones
Physical AI for Camera-based autonomous drone navigation in heavy cluttered environments
Drone that can dodge obstacles developed by US scientists. Telegraph '12. Also NBC News.
Autonomous Aerial Robot Maneuvers Like a Bird. Voice of America.
Zunavision, Co-founder & CTO
AI that generates 3D content within videos.
Embed Ads In User-Generated Videos With ZunaVision. New York Times. ABC News.
Make3D
Machine Learning for converting a single still image into 3D model.
Make3D: Turn a 2D Picture Into a 3D Model. Techcrunch. Also New Scientist.
PhD Students
Yun Jiang McMullen Fellow. Perception Director, Cruise.
Generative Models for 3D Perception and Mobile Manipulation.
Getting 'hallucinating' robots to arrange your room for you. Kurzweil AI.
Hema Koppula, 2015 Google PhD Fellow. Best student paper RSS'13. Apple, ex-Skydio.
Generate & anticipate future human & robot actions.
Robot bartender can read your mind, Fox News'13. Also the Daily Show.
Ashesh Jain, 2016 Best student paper CVPR'16. CEO & Co-founder, Coram AI.
Large Scale AI Models for Robots.
Robots 'to work in supermarkets', BBC News '13.
Car Predicts Driving Mistakes Before They Happen. Discovery News '15.
Ian Lenz, 2015
Deep Learning for Robotics Perception & Control. Test of time 10-year award.
Knife-Wielding Robots are Getting Better at Handling Slippery Foods
Autonomous Aerial Robot Maneuvers Like a Bird. VOA. NBC News.
Chenxia Wu Staff SWE, Google AI for Gemini models.
Google Excellence Scholar '12. Large Scale 3D Scene and Video Understanding.
Watch-n-Patch, This Robot Uses Machine Learning to Take Care of Absent-Minded Humans, IEEE Spectrum.
Ozan SenerAI researcher, Apple.
Large-scale video mining for RoboBrain.
This robot is using YouTube videos to learn all about us. Washington Post '14.
Jaeyong Sung Principal SWE, Roblox
RoboBarista: Learning Maniplation Skills from Videos. The 50-years of Shakey at AAAI-RSS Blue Sky Ideas award, 2015.
Crowdsourcing a coffee-pouring, juice-making robot. Wired '15.
Changxi ZhengAssociate Professor, Columbia.
AI for Robot Manipulation. Doug James' PhD student.
Robot smart enough to clean your room (but not to have excuse to get out of it). NBC News '12.
Dipendra MisraAI Researcher, Microsoft.
Tell Me Dave: Large-scale crowdsourcing for learning robot language.
New robot learns from plain speech, not computer code. LA Times '14.
